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      with vbr audio playable.

    Headers: AVI files has a mandatory header at the begin of the file,
    describing video parameters (resolution, fps) and codecs. Optionally
    they have an INDEX block at the end of the file. It's optional, but
    most files has such block, because it REQUIRES for seeking.
    Btw usually it can be rebuild from file content, mplayer does it with
    the -idx switch. Mplayer can recreate broken index blocks using -forceidx.
    As AVI files needs index for random access, broken files with no index
    are usually unplayable.
    Of course, cutting/joining AVI files needs special programs.

    FPS: no fixed fps, every video frame has an exact timestamp instead.
    I've got stream with up to 3 sec frame display times.

  - QuickTime / MOV files:
    They come from Mac users, usually with .mov or .qt extension, but as
    MPEG Group choose quicktime as recommended file format for MPEG4,
    sometimes you meet quicktime files with .mpg or .mp4 extension.
  
    At first look, it's a mixture of ASF and AVI.
    It requires INDEX block for random access and seeking, and even for
    playback, like AVI, but uses timestamps instead of constant framerate

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      with vbr audio playable.

    Headers: AVI files has a mandatory header at the begin of the file,
    describing video parameters (resolution, fps) and codecs. Optionally
    they have an INDEX block at the end of the file. It's optional, but
    most files has such block, because it's REQUIRED for seeking.
    Btw usually it can be rebuilt from file content, mplayer does it with
    the -idx switch. Mplayer can recreate broken index blocks using -forceidx.
    As AVI files needs index for random access, broken files with no index
    are usually unplayable.
    Of course, cutting/joining AVI files needs special programs.

    FPS: no fixed fps, every video frame has an exact timestamp instead.
    I've got stream with up to 3 sec frame display times.

  - QuickTime / MOV files:
    They come from Mac users, usually with .mov or .qt extension, but as
    MPEG Group chose quicktime as recommended file format for MPEG4,
    sometimes you meet quicktime files with .mpg or .mp4 extension.
  
    At first look, it's a mixture of ASF and AVI.
    It requires INDEX block for random access and seeking, and even for
    playback, like AVI, but uses timestamps instead of constant framerate